American cloth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They spun and wove American cloth when men renounced British imports.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
I once asked a village maiden why the people made firewood of carved arm-chairs, when painted pinewood, upholstered in American cloth, is, if lovelier, not so lasting.
From Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
He swung his pack round and took off the piece of American cloth from the top of it.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry
Together we went round to the end of the table, and there, surely enough, found a letter pinned to the American cloth, and addressed to my companion in a bold but rather quaint handwriting.
From A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta by Boothby, Guy
To equal a Lancashire cloth in these respects an American cloth must not only be made of better cotton, but must contain more of it—perhaps 5% more.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
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